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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by thaumasiotes on Monday September 15, 2025 @12:01AM (#45245978)
> Same with “1 Hershey’s bar”, uhh, no clue what 1 standard bar was then. Thankfully my mom was able to fill in the gaps but let this be a lesson, if you have family recipes you love, get it written down with actual units, you’ll thank yourself later.

This will break in other ways; the makeup of a candy bar changes over time as ingredients rise and fall in price.

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by eesmith on Monday September 15, 2025 @03:09AM (#45246951)
Stephen Jay Gould's "Phyletic Size Decrease in Hershey Bars", in "Hen's teeth and horse's toes" at https://archive.org/details/hensteethhorsest00step/page/314/... shows the size trend from the 2.0 ounces of 1960 to the the 1.2 ounce of 1980, when it was published.
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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by thaumasiotes on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @03:29PM (#45266801)
The entire point of my comment is that besides changes in size, there are also changes in ingredients.
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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by eesmith on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @01:32AM (#45272099)
Implied by the Devil Dog mentioned later in the essay:

> And I will say this for the good folks in Hershey, Pa. It’s still the same damned good chocolate, what’s left of it. A replacement of whole by broken almonds 1s the only compromise with quality I’ve noticed, while I shudder to think what the “‘creme”’ inside a Devil Dog is made of these days.

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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by ndsipa_pomu on Monday September 15, 2025 @05:03AM (#45247613)
Also, Hershey's "chocolate" tastes of vomit due to butyric acid from lipolysis
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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by dolmen on Monday September 15, 2025 @09:41AM (#45249658)
Thanks for the explanation. Hershey's taste was really a disappointment on my first visit to the US. As a dark chocolate eater I still can't understand how this called chocolate.
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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by b800h on Monday September 15, 2025 @10:36AM (#45250228)
Britisher here. I was disgusted to discover this when a colleague brought some from the US. I don't understand how anyone eats / ate this stuff.
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Re:Betty Crocker broke recipes by shrinking boxes by brnt on Monday September 15, 2025 @11:19AM (#45250707)
My wife worked for a company that does this (for many large brands that you know of. Yes it always surprised me that they even farmed this out, they really only do marketing themselves anymore). Was a real eye opener.
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